Student Debt, By the Numbers: Part 5: Factors—Declining State Support

States with double-digit decreases in state allocations for higher educations from 2010-2011 to 2011-2012:

New Hampshire -41.5%

Arizona -25.1%

Wisconsin -20.9%

Louisiana -18.5%

Colorado -15.4%

Tennessee -15.0%

Virginia -14.7%

Oklahoma -14.5%

Washington -14.5%

Nevada -14.0%

California -13.5%

Pennsylvania -13.4%

Wyoming -12.7%

Connecticut -12.2%

Michigan -12.2%

Illinois -12.1%

Florida -12.0%

New Mexico -11.6%

Georgia -11.5%

Ohio -11.8%

North Dakota -10.4%

Decline in state support for higher education as a percentage of total state spending from 1978 to 2007: 40%.

Increases in tuition due to decreased state support at the 22 campuses in the California State University system from 2007 to 2010: from 35% at Humboldt State University to 47% at San Diego State University.

Percentage of California’s state budget allocated to prisons and to post-secondary education, respectively, in 1979: 3% and 10%.

Percentage of California’s state budget allocated to prisons and to post- secondary education, respectively, in 2009: 11% and 7.5%.

Percentage of revenue of selected “Public Ivies” from state support in 1989: University of California at Berkeley, 47%; University of Michigan, 48%; University of Virginia, 33%.

Percentage of revenue of selected “Public Ivies” from state support in 2009: University of California at Berkeley, 47%; University of Michigan, 17%; University of Virginia, 7%.

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About martinkich

I am a Professor of English at Wright State University, where I have been a faculty member for almost 25 years. I serve as the president of the WSU chapter of AAUP, which now includes two bargaining units, as the vice-president of the Ohio Conference of AAUP, and as a member of the executive committee of AAUP's Collective Bargaining Congress.
As co-chair of the Ohio Conference's Communication Committee, I began to do much more overtly political writing during the campaign to repeal Ohio's Senate Bill 5, which would have eliminated the right of faculty to be unionized.

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